-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: obit - Myrtie Jarrell Simmons Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:30:27 -0500 From: Lillian Husband <lillypoo1340@suddenlink.net> Reply-To: Lillian Husband <lillypoo1340@suddenlink.net> To: Wiley Alston Jarrell <wajarrell@earthlink.net> References: <47DAD843.2050700@earthlink.net> Dear List, Myrtie Simmons was my great Aunt. My husband, daughter and I attended her services in Shreveport. It was a beautiful celebration of a life lived for Christ. When we got to the funeral home, family members informed us that one of the surving sisters, Geneva, had died the day before, March 12. She had been ill with cancer for several years. Now there is only one surving child of Simeon and Isabella Barton Jarrell's nine. She is my Great Aunt Ida Lee. She is 96 years young and made the trip from Hot Springs, AR to Shreveport for her sister's funeral. They were a beautiful family and had a great influence on the lives of the direct family and extended family as well. I remember when, as a child, someone in my family had a crisis, health issues or emotional or financial, my mother or grandmother would say, "We need to call Hot Springs and get them to pray." Lil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wiley Alston Jarrell" <wajarrell@earthlink.net> To: <lillypoo1340@suddenlink.Net> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 2:55 PM Subject: obit - Myrtie Jarrell Simmons > THIBODAUX, LA - Services for Myrtie Jarrell Simmons, 104, will be > held on Thursday, March 13, 2008, at 1:00 p.m. at Centuries Memorial > Funeral Home. Officiating will be Bro. Glidewell, Pastor of First > Pentecostal Church of Hot Springs, AR, where Myrtie was a member for > 50 years. Assisting will be Rick McDonald of Life Tabernacle Church > of Shreveport. > > Interment will follow in Centuries Memorial Park Cemetery. > > Visitation will begin at 11:00 a.m. prior to the service on Thursday. > > Mrs. Simmons entered into rest quietly on Monday, March 10th at her > residence in Thibodaux, LA. Myrtie had lived in Hot Springs, AR > approximately 50 years before moving back to Louisiana in 2004. She > was a member of the House of Prayer - First United Pentecostal Church > in Thibodaux, LA. She attributed her secret to health and happiness > to "Living by the word of God." > > She is survived by two sisters, Ida Lee Reed and Geneva Alexander, > both of Hot Springs, AR; daughter, Billie Strong of Shreveport, LA; 4 > grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren, 18 great-great-grandchildren, > and numerous great-great-nieces and nephews. > > > >